The announcement said that these groups will conduct the FEED in parallel under a design competition.

To keep to the project schedule and ensure consistency of engineering, it said, one of the groups will continue into the FLNG engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phase. The FLNG EPC contract will therefore be awarded to the group that “provides technical and commercial superiority” based on overall design for the floating plant.

Stage 1 of the development of Adabi gas field envisions a single 2.5 tonnes/year liquefaction unit as well as production capacity of 8,400 b/d of condensate.